Soon enough, they made it there, and it was a bright and sunny day for many. As they came there, there were couples visiting who were looking to adopt children.
"Looks like we came during adoptions." Felicity said.
"I'm sure they'll start the reunion soon enough, Flick." Forte replied.
Simon smoked his cigarette as he looked to see a girl who was as pale as he was with short pigtails and had a black dress as she carried an ant farm and his eyes widened and his cigarette dropped on the floor as he looked entranced by her.
"Simon? You okay? Simon?" Akito asked as he noticed his youngest cousin had dropped his cigarette.
Simon gaped at the girl with the fire ant farm.
"What are you looking at, Kid?" the girl glared at him and walked off with a scoff.
"Simon? Hello? Anyone in there?" Estelle asked as she waved her right hand over his eyes.
Simon soon blinked as the girl left his sight and he looked over and appeared to have rosy cheeks now.
"Simon, are you blushing?" Felicity asked.
Simon tilted his head. "...Noooooo."
"You are different..." Felicity touched his face. "Your cheeks are warm."
"They are?" Simon asked.
"Your hands are sweaty too..." Felicity then took her brother's hands.
"Really?" Simon asked.
"You have affections!" Felicity gasped then looked to the others. "SIMON IS IN LOVE!"
"Aw!" Estelle smiled.
"Simon's in love?" Akito and Vincent asked before laughing.
Simon felt confused, he had never fell in love before. That was until now. He felt nervous and unsure.
Cherry picked up Simon and hugged him. "Oh, you do have a soul! And I wanted to drown you after you were born, but your father told me not to!"
A woman soon came over to them.
"Oh, um, hello." Atticus greeted.
"Are you here to adopt?" the woman asked.
"No, we're here for a reunion," Atticus said before pulling Cherry over. "See, we grew up here and we were asked to come here for old time's sake."
"Wait, Atticus? Cherry? Is it really you?" The woman smiled.
"You know who were are?" Cherry asked as she didn't recognize this woman.
"Yes, don't you remember me? I was the younger sister of the teenage girl that used to work here?" The woman smiled.
Cherry adjusted her glasses and narrowed her eyes. "Ooohh..."
"You look so much like Tiffany Duffy..." Atticus noticed then. "I guess you're Mildred then."
"Yes, I take charge here now," the woman smiled to the two. "So, I hear one of you is famous now."
"One of us..." Cherry scoffed.
"I'm a detective now." Atticus smiled.
"I know." Mildred smiled back.
Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Have you done work, Cherry?" Mildred asked.
"I plan on writing novels based on the times I've shared with friends and family." Cherry replied mysteriously.
"That's great." Mildred smiled.
Cherry adjusted her glasses. Cherry and Atticus then introduced their families to Mildred so she could all get to know them.
"It's nice to meet all of you," Mildred said before meeting the Ketchum family and Lee and Jenny. She could also see the Fudo siblings holding hands with Emi, Lee, and Jenny. "Oh, how adorable..."
This made the teenagers blush.
Akito could hear something going on in one of the rooms, thanks to his super-hearing. He then went over to check it out and this made Emi follow after him.
"So, your daughter is the Pokemon Princess?" Mildred asked Delia and Satoshi. "I have heard many tales of Pokemon, but I've never actually seen one."
"We didn't meet any when we were younger, unless you count those experiments that Jumba had." Cherry commented about her and Atticus's childhood.
"I don't think so." Atticus said.
"Well, I kinda count them," Cherry shrugged as their kids seemed to be wandering off. "We had to catch them all... And..."
Akito leaned against a wall and he came closer to the door where he heard the sound came from as he stealthed around like a secret agent spy. Emi seemed to do the same thing as him. The two snuck around until they bumped into each other which made them both scream and they covered each other's mouths.
"Emi, don't sneak up on me like that." Akito warned the girl he liked.
"Sorry..." Emi smiled sheepishly.
The two of them soon continued to sneak around. Akito kept an ear out.
"What do you hear?" Emi asked.
"It sounds like someone talking about peanut butter..." Akito replied.
"That's interesting." Emi said.
Akito came closer to a door and he cracked it open while Emi leaned beside him to take a look with him. And where they saw two boys, one of them was inventing something. One boy looked very tired and miserable while the other one looked wide awake and inspired.
"Well, we can tell who isn't the one that was talking about peanut butter." Emi whispered.
Akito nodded. The boy then seemed to be adding jelly into his invention.
"Must be an invention for making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches easier." Akito whispered.
"Mm, I would've loved that when I went with Ash when we picked up Pikachu for the first time together." Emi smiled.
The door soon opened up more as Mildred was behind them. Akito and Emi gasped slightly as they didn't expect her to be there. The two boys soon looked to see Mildred, Akito, and Emi.
"Lewis, the Harringtons are here!" Mildred told the blonde boy with his invention.
"Way ahead of you, Mildred." the boy replied as he took his invention before he went off with it.
"What, the Harringtons?" Emi asked, confused.
"You two should get back with your parents, Lewis has an appointment." Mildred told Akito and Emi.
"Yes, ma'am." Akito and Emi said.
Lewis was on his way out as Mildred then stopped him to make sure he was ready while Akito and Emi went back to their parents.
"Hey, Atticus, check this out!" Cherry called out.
Atticus came into the room she was and then saw an old dusty table with Nancy Drew and Bailey School Kids books. "No way!"
"Right?!" Cherry grinned. "It's our old spot!"
"Man, this spot sure hasn't changed other than collecting dust." Atticus said.
Cherry and Atticus checked out their table.
Atticus took out a note in the chair he sat in. "'Detective Fudo sat here'."
"Why did you put that there?" Cherry asked.
"I didn't." Atticus defended.
"Yeah, right," Cherry scoffed before sneezing slightly. "Gah, dust!"
"Sorry about the dust," Mildred told them after sending Lewis off. "But this an important artifact in our orphanage since you two stayed here many years ago."
"So then, do you know who put the note on the chair?" Atticus asked Mildred.
"My sister did," Mildred replied. "After she's heard about you two going onto adventurous and wonderful lives, she wanted everybody to remember you long after your adoptions and reunions with your families."
"That was nice of her." Cherry said.
"You two really made her day after you became friends." Mildred smiled.
There were splatters and slight screams then heard.
"Excuse me a moment." Mildred told Cherry and Atticus as she then came to see what that was all about.
Atticus and Cherry decided to join in.
"Hi, folks, did you-" Mildred was about to ask until she saw a mess and the blonde man appeared to have a slightly swelled face. "What happened?!"
"Miss Duffy, that boy is definitely not right for us!" Mrs. Harrington replied. "Now, if you'll excuse me."
The couple then stormed off and decided to not adopt Lewis.
"What happened?" Cherry asked.
"I'm pretty sure one of Lewis's inventions got out of hand..." Mildred sighed, feeling bad for Lewis as he was not going to be adopted.
"Wait, you mean this has happened before?" Atticus asked.
"I'm afraid it has..." Mildred rubbed her arm nervously.
"Yikes." Atticus and Cherry said.
"I better talk to him after I make lunch..." Mildred sighed as she went off.
Lewis felt heartbroken as the couple left and he went off to be all alone. Akito and Emi frowned as they felt bad for Lewis.
Later on, during lunch, the families were welcome to have their own lunch with their Pokemon. The two Kirlias sensed that someone was sad.
"We should check on Lewis, he seemed so bummed out earlier." Emi commented.
"Yeah..." Akito agreed.
"I think the Kirlia twins are way ahead of you two." Estelle said.
Akito took an extra cheesy bread roll, put it in his mouth, and went after the Pokemon twins. This made the kids and Pokemon follow after while the adults ate their lunch from Mildred as she then finished and came to check on Lewis who she was closest to in the whole orphanage since she had found him.
The Kirlia twins seemed to go up to the roof. Lewis sat behind a box, feeling very dark and lonely.
"I made some lunch." Mildred told the boy.
"Not hungry." Lewis pouted.
The Kirlia twins soon arrived at the roof. Lewis looked curiously to the Pokemon twins. The kids and the rest of the Pokemon soon arrived at the roof, although two of them wasn't as exhausted as the rest.
"You guys are such slowpokes." Akito said.
"I will Brain Blast your butt." Estelle threatened.
They soon caught their breath. Akito smirked teasingly and then looked toward Lewis.
"Poor Mr. Harrington..." Mildred said with a small smile.
"I killed him?!" Lewis panicked since his invention gave the man a severe allergy.
"No! No, no, you didn't kill him," Mildred coaxed. "I called; he's perfectly fine... I was just gonna say it's... It's too bad that he didn't get to try a sandwich from that wonderful invention of yours."
"You mean his peanut butter and jelly sandwich making invention?" Emi asked.
"I'm afraid Mr. Harrington broke out in an allergy." Mildred replied.
"Yeah, real wonderful." Lewis scoffed sadly.
"It's okay, you didn't know that-" Lee started before whispering to Mildred. "Allergic to peanuts or jelly?"
"Peanuts." Mildred whispered back.
"Thanks," Lee whispered back before turning his attention back to Lewis. "You didn't know that Mr. Harrington was allergic to peanuts; it's understandable."
"It's all right, Lewis, we just haven't found the right couple yet." Mildred tried.
"124." Lewis replied.
"What...?" Mildred asked.
"That's how many adoption interviews I've had," Lewis explained. "124."
"Oh, come on; we're sure you're just exaggerating." Jenny said.
Lewis stood up and turned over the box he sat behind to show tallies to count out how many failed adoption interviews he's had. The others could then see that that seemed very true.
"Plus, I'm gonna be thirteen next year, and Mildred, you know how hard it is for a teenager to get adopted," Lewis sulked as he sat on the box. "I have no future. No one wants me."
"Of course a family wants you, the right one just hasn't come yet." Akito said.
"My own mother didn't even want me." Lewis continued.
"Now, stop it!" Mildred tried to get him to settle down. "You do not know that."
"Then why'd she give me up?" Lewis glared.
"She probably didn't have enough money to take care of you." Estelle said.
"Yes, did you ever think of that?" Mildred added, agreeing with that possibility. "I am sure she was only thinking about what was best for you."
"I never thought of it that way." Lewis whispered.
The Pokémon soon smiled as they thought he was now getting what they were trying to tell him.
"Maybe she wanted to keep you, but she had no choice." Mildred comforted Lewis the best that she could.
"You're right," Lewis suddenly smiled. "My real mom is the only person who's ever wanted me."
"Wait, I said 'maybe'." Mildred reminded.
"And if she wanted me then, she'll want me now!" Lewis smiled as he felt inspired.
"Lewis, what are you talking about?" Felicity asked.
"I have to find her, guys," Lewis stood up. "And when I do, she'll take me back, and we'll be a family again!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" The teenagers said.
"Lewis, you can't do that," Mildred added as she tried to stop the blonde boy. "No one knows anything about her, no one even saw her."
Lewis looked up to a billboard and felt motivated. "Wrong, I saw her once..." he then tapped his forehead. "She's in here. I just have to remember," he then saw another billboard about a movie which inspired him for yet another new invention. "That's it!"
"What is it?" Lee asked.
"My newest invention!" Lewis ran to his room in inspiration.
"I have a feeling we might have just started an adventure." Jenny said.
"Hmm... We could use one..." Vincent agreed.
"Does this happen a lot?" Lee asked his girlfriend.
"Yep." Estelle replied.
"Almost everyday." Akito said.
"Guess I should get used to it..." Lee sighed.
